flies

1. see as the crow flies; drop like flies; no flies on someone; time flies. Also see under fly.

Example Sentences

Piles of belongings and rotting food covered the bed and the air was thick with flies.

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It’s easy for the help to know their place when the lords and ladies treat them as something akin to family — the kind of almost-relatives who fix their morning eggs or button their flies.

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Their slow footsteps crunched in the grass, their teeth chewed and chewed, their tails flicked at flies.

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A US Air Force plane from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters, flies into the eye of Hurricane Melissa, as the category 5 Hurricane approaches Jamaica.

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But all they could mostly do was hit harmless pop flies, recording an out on each of the first 12 heaters they put in play.

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Related Words

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• cross 
• drift 
• float 
• flutter 
• glide 
• operate 
• pilot 
• reach 
• rush 
• sail 
• shoot 
• speed 
• swoop 
• take off 
• travel